mufti

See also: MUFTI, Mufti, muftì, and muftí

English

Alternative forms

• muftee (archaic)

Etymology

From Arabic مُفْتٍ (muftin), the active participle of أَفْتَى (ʔaftā, “to deliver a formal opinion”). فَتْوَى (fatwā, “fatwa”) is the verbal noun of the same verb.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmʌfti/, (only in sense 1) /ˈmʊfti/

• Audio (AU):

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Noun

mufti (countable and uncountable, plural muftis)

1. (countable, Islam) A Muslim scholar and interpreter of shari’a law, who can deliver a fatwa.
   • 2012 April 19, Josh Halliday, “Free speech haven or lawless cesspool – can the internet be civilised?”, in the Guardian‎^[1]:

     Mujtahidd's online claims have prompted an aggressive backlash against social media from the Saudi religious establishment. The grand mufti of Saudi Arabia, Sheikh Abdul-Aziz al-Sheikh, said in January that Twitter was a platform for "promoting lies" and a "dangerous practice" that should be avoided by Muslims. Commentators have described the phenomenon as symbolic of the growing political debate about use of Twitter in Saudi Arabia.

2. (uncountable, Australia, British, New Zealand) A civilian dress when worn by a member of the military, or casual dress when worn by a pupil of a school who normally would wear uniform.
   • 1919, Ronald Firbank, Valmouth, hardback edition, Duckworth, page 91:

     He had a suit of summer mufti, and a broad-brimmed blue beaver hat looped with leaves broken from the hedgerows in the lanes, and a Leander scarf tucked full of flowers: loosestrife, meadowrue, orchis, ragged-robin.

   • 2002 April 3, Wilma, Dave, “First nuclear submarine U.S.S. Nautilus visits Seattle and crew secretly buys Bar's Leak on June 3, 1958”, in HistoryLink.org: Essay 3739:

     The sailors in mufti returned with 140 quarts of Bar's Leak, half of which was poured into the condenser.

   Synonym: civvies

Derived terms

• mufti day

Translations

Muslim scholar

• Arabic: مُفْتٍ m (muftin)
• Armenian: մուֆտի (hy) (mufti)
• Azerbaijani: müfti
• Bashkir: мөфтөй (möftöy)
• Bengali: মুফতি (muphti)
• Bulgarian: мюфтия m (mjuftija)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 穆夫提 (mùfūtí)

• Crimean Tatar: müfti
• Dutch: moefti (nl) m
• Finnish: mufti (fi)
• French: mufti (fr) m
• German: Mufti (de) m, (grand) Großmufti (de) m
• Greek: μουφτής (el) m (mouftís)
• Hebrew: מֻפְתִּי / מופתי‎ m (muftí)
• Hindi: मुफ़्ती m (muftī), मुफ्ती (hi) m (muphtī)
• Hungarian: mufti
• Ido: mufti (io)
• Indonesian: mufti (id)
• Italian: muftì m
• Japanese: ムフティー (mufutī)
• Kazakh: мүфти (müfti)
• Korean: 무프티 (mupeuti)
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• Kyrgyz: муфтий (muftiy)
• Macedonian: му́фтија m (múftija)
• Malay: mufti
• Ngazidja Comorian: mufti
• Ottoman Turkish: مفتی (müftî)
• Persian: مفتی (fa) (mofti)
• Portuguese: mufti m
• Romanian: muftiu (ro) m
• Russian: му́фтий (ru) m (múftij)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: му̀фтија m

  Roman: mùftija (sh) m

• Swedish: mufti c
• Tajik: муфтӣ (mufti)
• Tatar: мөфти (möfti)
• Turkish: müftü (tr)
• Turkmen: müfti
• Ukrainian: му́фтій m (múftij)
• Urdu: مفتی m (muftī)
• Uyghur: مۇپتى (mupti)
• Uzbek: mufti (uz)
• Volapük: muftid, (grand) lemuftid

civilian dress

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 便服 (zh) (biànfú), 常服 (zh) (chángfú)

• Dutch: burgertenue n
• French: tenue civile f
• German: Zivilsachen
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• Greek: πολιτικά ρούχα n pl (politiká roúcha), πολιτικά (el) n pl (politiká)
• Italian: abito civile m
• Japanese: 私服 (しふく, shifuku), 平服 (へいふく, heifuku), 便衣隊 (べんいたい, ben'itai)
• Portuguese: traje à paisana m
• Russian: шта́тское пла́тье n (štátskoje plátʹje), шта́тское (ru) n (štátskoje), гражда́нское (ru) n (graždánskoje)

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French

Etymology

From Arabic مُفْتٍ (muftin), the active participle of أَفْتَى (ʔaftā, “to deliver a formal opinion”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /myf.ti/
• Rhymes: -i

Noun

mufti m (plural muftis)

1. (Islam) mufti (Muslim scholar)

Related terms

• fatwa

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Hungarian

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish مفتی (müftî), from Arabic مُفْتِي (muftī), from مُفْتٍ (muftin), the active participle of أَفْتَى (ʔaftā, “to deliver a formal opinion”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈmufti]
• Hyphenation: muf‧ti

Noun

mufti (plural muftik)

1. (Islam) mufti (Muslim scholar)

Declension

Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, back harmony)
	singular	plural
nominative	mufti	muftik
accusative	muftit	muftikat
dative	muftinak	muftiknak
instrumental	muftival	muftikkal
causal-final	muftiért	muftikért
translative	muftivá	muftikká
terminative	muftiig	muftikig
essive-formal	muftiként	muftikként
essive-modal	—	—
inessive	muftiban	muftikban
superessive	muftin	muftikon
adessive	muftinál	muftiknál
illative	muftiba	muftikba
sublative	muftira	muftikra
allative	muftihoz	muftikhoz
elative	muftiból	muftikból
delative	muftiról	muftikról
ablative	muftitól	muftiktól
non-attributive possessive - singular	muftié	muftiké
non-attributive possessive - plural	muftiéi	muftikéi

Possessive forms of mufti
possessor	single possession	multiple possessions
1st person sing.	muftim	muftijaim (or muftiim)
2nd person sing.	muftid	muftijaid (or muftiid)
3rd person sing.	muftija	muftijai (or muftii)
1st person plural	muftink	muftijaink (or muftiink)
2nd person plural	muftitok	muftijaitok (or muftiitok)
3rd person plural	muftijuk	muftijaik (or muftiik)

Derived terms

• főmufti

Related terms

• fetva

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Italian

Noun

mufti m (uncountable)

1. Rare form of muftì.

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Polish

Etymology

From Arabic مُفْتٍ (muftin), the active participle of أَفْتَى (ʔaftā, “to deliver a formal opinion”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmuf.ti/

Noun

mufti m pers

1. (Islam) mufti (Muslim scholar)

   Pierwszym muftim Polski był Jakub Szynkiewicz.

   The first mufti of Poland was Jakub Szynkiewicz.

Declension

Declension of mufti

	singular	plural
nominative	mufti	muftiowie
genitive	muftiego	muftich
dative	muftiemu	muftim
accusative	muftiego	muftich
instrumental	muftim	muftimi
locative	muftim	muftich
vocative	mufti	muftiowie

Related terms

• fatwa

Further reading

• Template:R:PWN

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Portuguese

Etymology

From Arabic مُفْتٍ (muftin), the active participle of أَفْتَى (ʔaftā, “to deliver a formal opinion”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mufˈt͡ʃi/
• IPA^(key): /mufˈti/

Noun

mufti m (plural muftis)

1. (Islam) mufti (Muslim scholar)